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Book Review: The Heart of the Story by Randy Frazee

Posted on November 25, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

I was given an opportunity to obtain a review copy of The Heart of the Story, by Randy Frazee. The title and description of the book interested me so I took advantage of the offer. The author nearly lost me right from the get-go when he tried to provide perspective on how large the universe […]

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Book Review: The Sky Is Not Falling by Charles Colson

Posted on October 18, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Review I must say that I’ve had a difficult time writing a review for this book. Not because I didn’t like it (I did like it), not because it isn’t worth reading (it is), but because there are many facets to the critique of 21st Century American and how the Church responds to it. Mr. […]

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Book Review: Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me by Ian Morgan Cron

Posted on August 6, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Why you might want to skip this book and review If you are a perfect parent, and have perfect parents, feel free to scroll down and click on one of the links in the blogroll below and find something else to read. You will gain nothing from reading either this blog post or the reviewed […]

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Already Compromised – What You Should Know About Educating Your Child

Posted on July 4, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Already Compromised

The Opportunity I have seen some students emerge from Christian colleges with a passion to live for Jesus Christ. I have seen others come away from their learning experience discouraged and disillusioned about their faith. As a result of this, when given an opportunity to read Already Compromised on the condition that I do a […]

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Weird – Because normal isn’t working – Book Review

Posted on May 16, 2011 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

A Weird Contest Won   One day I saw a tweet which announced a contest to win a new book called Weird. Since free is my favorite price and the title intrigued me, I decided to check it out. One of the ways to win a copy was to promise to write a review of […]

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